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After more than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, we are still largely confined to the four walls of our homes. But for painters, by and large, this has always been the case. They have to negotiate with their mediums from their rooms or studios. Keeping this in mind, we caught up with distinguished artists from Bangladesh to know more about their journey with art during these trying times.
Eminent artist Kanak Chapa Chakma considers herself lucky to not have to face any personal loss, when so many people near and dear to her have lost people they love. I still remember the initial days of the pandemic when I would stay at home, hungrily observing the suddenly empty world from my terrace, she says. Even though the artist finished a few paintings in the first wave of the pandemic, quite a lot of them were developed much earlier. She fed street dogs and cats frequently, and donated paintings to organisations that sold them and distributed the money to artists and film production